22.03.2013The ex-President of Moldova, Chairman of the Communist Party MP Vladimir Voronin says he doesn’t really see a particular need for holding consultations with the Liberal Democratic Party to launch the procedure of discharging Parliament Speaker Marian Lupu.

MOLDOVAN PRESIDENT CLAIMS FIDELITY TO COMMUNIST IDEAS…

27.10.2008

Chisinau. Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin has stated he adheres by the ideas of communism, “which are currently topical and in a demand high as never before”.

Addressing the last Saturday’s big solemn meeting on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Moldovan Communist Party, the MCP Chairman Voronin stated, “At the beginning of the 21st century, a turn to the left has taken place in the world politics. In view of a severe financial crisis, the ideas of Lenin and Marx have become actual again, and the circulations of the Manifesto and other creations of Marxism-Leninism classics are breaking all records”.

“In Moldova, this turn happened much earlier. The funeral team, which came into power in 1991 and did its utmost to make the word ‘communism’ a swear-word, has shown its inutility. That team has committed an unprecedented tragic leap into the past. And we [the Communists] had to undertake immense efforts to rehabilitate the country and put it back on track towards progress and prosperity”, stated the MCP leader.

He stressed, the Communist Party, which came into power in 2001, “has won the unequal struggle against the devastation. Today, we can state with all grounds that exactly the Communists stopped the chaos and ruining of the fundamentals of the 650-year-old statehood of Moldova. In 1993, we set our course for a well-organized political struggle and for winning state power through a democratic parliamentary election. And we did it eight years ago. And the past 1.5 decades have been the time of strengthening of a political army called the Moldovan Communist Party, which has overcome the hardest period of its renaissance and consolidation”.

Voronin said that last 7.5 years, the gross domestic product in Moldova has grown by 59%. The country has created 327 thousand new jobs. Foreign investment has soared 4-fold, and the minimal pension size – 8-fold.

“Already by the end of this year, the average monthly salary will reach US$300, and the average annual per capita income will mark US$1,230 from the initial US$354. During the Communist governance period, centralized gas supply has been provided to 7 hundred populated areas, 250 farmstore/community centers were built, and the area of new irrigated lands has increased several-fold”, said Vladimir Voronin.

He said the Communist Party has rejected the Lenin’s principle of the dictatorship of the proletariat, having given preference to a party of the nation’s workers, has rejected any forcible methods of struggle in favor of a parliamentary party, and has recognized the equality of all forms of property.

“All these provisions were reflected in a new party program, which was adopted at an MCP congress held in March 2008, is being successfully realized, and has become an essential contribution to the communist movement development”, stated the MCP Chairman.

He warned his party comrades that on the eve of a parliamentary election, “our political opponents are ready to once again rush into a battle for posts and for an access to comforts. They don’t care about the country’s destiny. They are struggling for power for their own comforts. Should this really happen, it will be a tragedy. The country may be unable to survive one more clinical death”.

He called on his comrades to embark on an active struggle at the forthcoming election so as to continue the party course and convert Moldova into a prosperous state. Voronin also called on Moldovan voters, saying they may fully count on the MCP now and in the future as on Moldova’s only political party fulfilling its electoral program and pledges.

Touching on the party’s external political activities, the MCP Chairman mentioned only Russia, and qualified the Moldo-Russian relations as “exemplary in many senses… In 2010, Moldova and Russia signed a Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation envisaging a strategic partnership between the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation. Despite all difficulties that existed, our present-day relationship may be regarded as exemplary”.

Voronin also stated the Moldovan Communists have “hacked a window into Europe”, and have made integration into the European Union Moldova’s strategic task that has been successfully solved last several years.

“We have set a course for European integration. Thank to the Communist faction, the Moldovan Parliament has passed over 2 hundred European laws, and Moldova is preparing to sign a new cooperation agreement with the European Union, which document will envisage a visa-free traveling to Europe, trade and other preferences”, said Vladimir Voronin.

The solemn meeting was attended by about 2 thousand party members as well as representatives of the Komsomol [young communist league] and the young pioneers’ organization with red tied on their necks, by Parliament Chairman Marian Lupu and Prime Minister Zinaida Grechanaya, practically all ministers, MCP parliamentarians.

The MCP Chairman’s speech, which was telecast live over the NIT channel, lasted longer than one hour, and was many times interrupted by stormy applauses.